That Elusive, Perfect Apartment

Jac & I started seriously looking for apartments on Saturday (meaning, calling, making appointments, going to see them). And, strangely enough, we fell in love with the very first one we saw. Or well, at least HE did.

Basically consists of an entrance, large bedroom, bathroom kind of fugly (it doesn't get much worse than large black and white tiling) but large none-the-less, large living room and a decent size kitchen -- also done in ugly tiling. Then, to top it off -- a HUGE terrace. Huge. (Hence the "he fell in love part"). I'm in love with everything BUT the tiling.

We made an offer right away to take it from 1 August but that is going to be difficult for us (Jac technically has to pay rent until November at his current apt.) -- but Jac thinks it is worth it.

The only problem is that it is "VUOTO" which means: it's got 'nuttin. Not a piece of furniture. Nuttin'. Not even a damn kitchen. And "elettrodomestici" or electro-domestics (i.e. Fridge, dishwasher, washingmachine, oven, stove etc.) + delivery and installation would cost far too much -- far, far, too much. And we don't really want to invest in something that we might have to leave behind (I mean, who takes a kitchen with them when they leave!)... And this is a rental.

So we are going to make another offer to pay a slightly higher rent if the landlady agrees to pay most of the kitchen (we'd offer to pay delivery and installation).

Fingers crossed.

I never imagined this all happening so fast.

We spent all of Sunday afternoon in Ikea after Roma lost the scudetto.

It makes us happy :-)